The Tufts Community is invited to:
Arts and Society Dialogues: the Salon Series
“Collective Inquiry”
Tuesday November 18, 2025
5:00pm – 6:15pm
Register
Arts and Society: Dialogues celebrates the power of creativity in research and dialogue, and the Salon Series are a set of themed interdisciplinary conversations that will culminate in the second annual Arts and Society Dialogues gathering in March 2026.
The second salon “Collective Inquiry” will be held Tuesday November 18, from 5-6:15pm in Olin 106 on the Medford Campus and will focus on Sound as a medium in both art and science. Riccardo Giacconi, Professor of the Practice at the SMFA, will lead a listening session Second Person in Audio Storytelling about body genres, embodiment, and engagement in radio, podcasting and sound arts. In counterpoint, Mimi Kao, Associate Professor of Biology, will discuss sound as a form of communication: Dr Kao studies vocal learning in songbirds - a quantifiable, natural behavior that exhibits features of motor learning and is subserved by a discrete set of brain regions.
Sponsored by the SMFA, the Office of the Vice Provost of Research (OVPR), and Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR), the Salons will be held November 18, in Medford, and January TBD, Salon conversations provoked by these themes will reach across many fields of research and practice at Tufts. We invite the entire Tufts community to participate in this opportunity for thoughtful and creative inquiry. Come cross-pollinate ideas, develop new relationships, and have fun in an open environment!
Faculty Co-chairs of the Salon series: Professors Mimi Kao, Jeannie Simms, and Mary Ellen Strom.
Questions? Anna.dalby@tufts.edu or zeman.cynthia@tufts.edu.
